Desert Landscape, 1951

oil and charcoal on canvas

overall: 61.3 x 106.7 cm (24 1/8 x 42 in.)

framed: 63.5 x 108.9 x 3.2 cm (25 x 42 7/8 x 1 1/4 in.)

1996.81.1

William Baziotes (painter) American, 1912 - 1963

lower right: Baziotes; on reverse: DESERT LANDSCAPE / Wm. Baziotes

(Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York); sold 1958 to Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Maryland;[1] gift 1996 to NGA.

[1] Provenance from The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996: 237.

Meyerhoff, Robert E.

1959: New Paintings and Sculpture from Established and Newly Formed Baltimore Collections, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1959.

1964: Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, 1964.

1966: Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.

1973: Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973.

1996: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 7, color repro.

2000: William Baziotes: The Poetic Spirit, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, 2000-2001, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2004: William Baziotes: Paintings and Drawings, 1934-1962, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2004-2005, no. 27, repro.

2014: Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2014, pl. 17.

1996: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 7.